塩しお

noun

salt; table salt; sodium chloride

The ordinary noun for salt, especially table salt used in cooking; can also refer to sodium chloride as a substance.

• スープに塩しおをひとつまみ加くわえる。

  Add a pinch of salt to the soup.

• この料りょう理りは塩しおを控ひかえめにした。

  I used less salt in this dish.

noun

saltiness; salty taste

Food and cooking use for how strong the salt flavor is; common in expressions such as 塩が強い or 塩が足りない.

• この漬つけ物ものは少すこし塩しおが強つよい。

  These pickles are a little too salty.

noun

hardship; toil; trouble

Rare figurative use for hardship or bitter experience; it is much less common than the literal salt sense and is safest understood as a set or literary-style usage.

• 古ふるい表ひょう現げんでは、「塩しお」が苦く労ろうや辛つらい経けい験けんを指さすことがある。

  In older expressions, 塩 can refer to hardship or bitter experience.

noun, used as a prefix

cold; unwelcoming; indifferent

Colloquial prefix-like use, especially in compounds such as 塩対応, describing a curt, cool, or unfriendly attitude.

• 店てん員いんの塩しお対たい応おうに少すこしがっかりした。

  I was a little disappointed by the clerk's cold treatment.

• 彼かれは初しょ対たい面めんの人ひとには塩しお対たい応おうになりがちだ。

  He tends to act cold toward people he has just met.